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From: Schmidt Hannisa, Hans
Sent: 16 June 2004 15:34
To: All Exchange Users
Subject: SLL Conference 2005: Money and Culture - Call for papers
Dear all,
Please find attached informations about the School of Language and
Literature's XIII Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film
and the Visual Arts which will take place 6-8 May 2005 at UCC. The title of
the interdisciplinary and international conference is:
MONEY AND CULTURE
Informations are also available on the School's webpage:
http://www.ucc.ie/acad/langlit/cfpmoney.html
Best wishes
Fiona Cox
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa
Call for Papers
Money and Culture
XIII Annual Conference
on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts 2005
An Scoil Teanga agus Litríochta / School of Language and Literature
National University of Ireland, University College Cork
6-8 May 2005
Organisation:
Dr Fiona Cox, Dept. of French, UCC
Dr Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Dept. of German, UCC
Keynotespeakers: Jochen Hörisch (Mannheim), Marc Shell (Harvard)
Money rules the world. It is ubiquitous and it is on our minds as often as
sex and food. Money has shaped cultures from the birth of civilisation on.
For some a necessary evil, for others a god, it creates power structures and
underpins all areas of creativity. However, this has been surprisingly
unacknowledged in literary and cultural studies.
The aim of this conference is to study diverse aspects of money as a
cultural phenomenon. We invite colleagues working in all academic
disciplines to submit proposals focusing on the following areas (which are
not intended to be exclusive):
1. Representations of money: money in literature, art, film, music, opera,
folklore, and myth. This section could include studies on money-related
motifs and figures (gifts, treasures, debt, heart of stone, Midas, Judas,
the miser, the spendthrift, the usurer, the merchant, the gambler, the
pawnbroker, the criminal etc), and on the iconography of money.
2. Money and Language: the vocabulary of money, including sayings, idioms,
metaphors.
3. Discourses on money: in literature, philosophy, sociology, economics,
theology, law, psychoanalysis, ethics, and politics.
4. The Cultural history of money: forms of money from the origins of the
first legal tender to cybercash, money as a medium, cultural practices,
customs, habits, rites, superstitions, money and gender, money and power,
money and institutions (banks, stock exchanges).
5. European dimensions: the Euro, money and (national) identity,
intercultural comparisons, money and politics, money in European history.
It is expected that selected papers from the conference will be published.
Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes. Please submit abstracts of
approximately 300 words by 31 January 2005 to one of the organisers:
Dr. Fiona Cox
Department of French
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
Email: [log in to unmask]
Dr. Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa
Department of German
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
Email: [log in to unmask]
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